The Avatar.

The choice to see movies in three dimensions or the regular two that we are all used to is becoming a harder and tougher one to make. I remember a day when seeing movies at the IMAX theatre in three dimensions were just amazing, even if the movie was just like, that documentary on fish that my dad took me to see that time, it was just amazing how it was in three dimensions... who cared what the guy was saying about the fish, it fucking was right in front of me. Recently, more and more films are being released in 3D, but you can also go and see the normal versions of the movie for much, much less. A normal movie ticket is like nine to twelve dollars, but 3D tickets are like sixteen to eighteen dollars, and whether it is worth what is nearly an extra ten dollars for one more dimension is something that I don’t know.

My mum has these seven dollar tickets to the Capri theatre, and at the moment they are showing Avatar, but they aren’t showing it in 3D, they’re just showing it those regular old two dimensions that I am almost getting sick of. If I wanted to see Avatar in those two dimensions, but also with an amazing third one, it would actually cost me an extra eleven dollars to go and see, and whether that is worth it or not I, yeah, I just don’t know. It was the hardest decision of my life, well not really, but it was up there. Back in like, August I think it was when Up came out, I just really wanted to see it. I didn’t even consider seeing it in normal, so we went and saw it in 3D, and it was great. The movie that is, the movie was actually amazing, but whether the third dimension was worth that extra ten dollars I still don’t know.

Up wasn’t really an action packed war movie though, and it wasn’t the kind of movie where there were bullets and arrows flying across the screen and people dying all over the place and all that, but Avatar is. We decide to go and see Avatar yesterday using my mum’s seven dollar tickets at the Capri, and yeah, it was just in those two old dimensions. Jack was telling me about how, apparently, in America, fifteen people on average had to walk out of the cinema and go home sick due to the third dimension in Avatar being too much for them. After hearing him say that, I was more keen to just watch it in those two dimensions that, I guess I said I was getting sick of them but really, it’s just what I am used to, like, they have never treated me badly, I have never been not keen to see something because it just had two dimensions, but then again, 3D just sounds like it would be better.

Avatar, for me at least, had a fuck load of hype up and around its blue ass. I mean there were just those days where you could just scroll down the Facebook home page news feed or whatever you call it and there would just be like, every second thing was someone saying how great Avatar was. Everyone that had seen it before had said that it was just amazing, or sad, but also amazing... I mean except for Hayden who said he fell asleep at the ending but yeah, everyone else said it was amazing, so I was still keen to see it. During the movie, it just seemed like one of those movies that thought it was amazing, and it knew it was, but it only kind of was. It almost seemed like, like if a movie could ever be up itself, it would be this. The screen was just full of itself being awesome, and it is almost like the screen was just all ‘hey look at me, I’m just fucking great! I cost two hundred and thirty seven million dollars to make, and just look at how good I look!’

As I read that last bit back to myself, I am being a little harsh, and really, I shouldn’t be harsh at all to this movie, because walking out of this movie, I just had a feeling. It was that feeling that you get when you walk out of an air conditioned building and into forty one degree heat. It was fucking hot, like really hot. Seriously though, Avatar was great. Avatar was one of those movies that is just constantly entertaining, and even when nothing’s happening, and they are just standing around talking, being blue and shit, you just look around and just look at how amazing the world of Avatar looks. I stop writing this every now and again to just, stand up and talk to Andrew, because he is right there, and I was just thinking, was Avatar the best looking movie ever? Like, did it have the best special effects ever? I remember walking out of Transformers 2 thinking that it had the best special effects ever in a movie. There was that scene where that bridge exploded when the transformer like, barged through it and I was just thinking wait, did that bridge actually just blow up or was that CGI?

However, Transformers was like, seventy five percent real and the other twenty five animated. Avatar was like ninety percent animated and the other ten was real. I mean that’s just Andrew and I’s numbers that we pulled out of our non blue asses but they are probably roughly right. Whether Avatar is the best movie of the year or not I still am unsure of, but I don’t think it was. It was the most epic, and I think it had the most unique storyline and the creatures that inhabited the world of Pandora were the most unique that I have seen since Pokémon, and the action was just amazing. How Hayden fell asleep through the ending is beyond me because I was actually making those sounds of excitement that I make through it all. Avatar, you can stick your head as far up your blue ass as you want, you can overhype yourself as much as you want because you are genuinely amazing, and you deserve the hype that my Facebook friends gave you.